Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

A selective list of online literary criticism and analysis for the English Victorian novelist Emily Brontë, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources

Introduction & Biography

"Emily Brontë." A substantial biography of Emily Brontë, includes a list of recommended biographies and literary criticism for her. Poetry Foundation.

Dolin, Tim. Three studies of the Brontës are reviewed:The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës; and Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History; and
"We Are Three Sisters": Self and Family in the Writing of the Brontës. In Victorian Studies 47, 1 (Autummn 2004) pp 131-34 [substantial extract, muse].

Literary Criticism

Crick, Brian.
"Charlotte Brontë: Her Sister's Interpreter: Reading Oppositely or Literary Criticism as Special Pleading." Crick notes that Charlotte Brontë's prefatory comments to her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights "have virtually infiltrated the work to become an intimate part of the text itself." Adding "For me these two brief essays are a long-standing source of irritation which even the accepted conventions for publishing academic articles do not warrant disguising." The New Compass: A Critical Review 2 (December 2003).

Bibliography & Web Sites

"Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell U, contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. An open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture.